1. All employees of state, public and large private industrial
enterprises (employing at least five wage-workers) undertake
to perform the business assigned to them, and not to leave
their posts without special permission from the government,
the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies, or
trade unions.

2. Violation of the rule set forth in § 1, or negligence in
the dispatch of business or presenting accounts to the
government and organs of power, or in discharge of services
for the public and the economy shall be punishable with
confiscation of all the property of the offender and
imprisonment for a term of up to five years.